French food focus - June 2019

Photo: Lascaux Permaculture Gardens

A focus on food in France. This month, veggie-boxes, a pyramid shaped goat cheese and ‘haut de gamme’ olive oil

Meet the producers

Cristina Powell has a market garden near Rochechouart in Haute-Vienne which she has been developing since 2017. “First we had to clear the land and then last year I experimented with different heritage varieties to see what would grow best here.”

She grew up on a small-holding, and always kept allotments in the UK, so knows what she’s doing. “I use heritage seeds because then you can propagate from the plants you grow.”